Film Review: Disclosure Day

Film Review: Disclosure Day
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Disclosure Day works on every level and ranks among Spielberg’s modern classics, combining the awe and excitement of his greatest summer blockbusters. … read more

Salt Lake Film Society Summer Showdown: The Handmaiden vs Gone Girl

Salt Lake Film Society Summer Showdown: The Handmaiden vs Gone...
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This weekend, I had the pleasure of watching two of the most iconic modern-day good-for-her films in recent cinema history: Gone Girl and The Handmaiden. … read more

Film Review: I Love Boosters

Film Review: I Love Boosters
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I Love Boosters is an afro-surrealist dreamscape that interrogates the hypocrisies and contradictions of capitalism while highlighting the importance of community, action and especially disruption. … read more

Film Review: Masters of the Universe

Film Review: Masters of the Universe
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Masters of the Universe is an absolute hoot, and sets a new standard for what this sort of movie should be that Hasbro could learn from. … read more

Film Review: Power Ballad

Film Review: Power Ballad
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Power Ballad is both a quietly soul-searching inner journey and a raucously energetic musical romp, and is easily one of the summer’s most satisfying films. … read more

Film Review: Backrooms

Film Review: Backrooms
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Backrooms’ strength is in its scale. Sets are appropriately expansive – sprawling and beautifully broken with wide shots that feel uncanny and uncomfortable. … read more

Film Review: Tuner

Film Review: Tuner
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Tuner is an entertaining film that sweeps you up like a great piece of music perfectly played and is likely to stand out as the best grown thrillers of the summer. … read more

Secondhand Screenings Presents: Guilty Pleasures

Secondhand Screenings Presents: Guilty Pleasures
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For this Secondhand Screenings, we’re looking at the critically-panned / societally-hated black sheep of the entertainment circuit that are some of our writers’ timeless classics. … read more

Film Review: Pressure

Film Review: Pressure
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D-Day, the invasion that turned the tide and ultimately won World War II. If you’re having trouble working up an interest in Pressure, you can hardly be blamed for that fact.  … read more

Film Review: Animal Farm: A Cautionary Tail

Film Review: Animal Farm: A Cautionary Tail
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It is “ironically Orwellian” that the author of 1984 would have his other most famous work, Animal Farm, diluted into anti-Communist children’s slop. … read more

Film Review: Obsession

Film Review: Obsession
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Go traumatize yourself and see Obsession in the theaters! It’ll give you and your therapist something new to talk about, besides whatever your mommy issues are. … read more

Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu

Film Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu
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As The Mandalorian and Grogu arrives on the big screen, it arrives with less fanfare and more baggage. Is the Force still strong with this franchise? … read more